... behind
the lines of the Egyptian archers a column of men advanced a hundred abreast, each carrying a great fagot.
Their object was evident: they were about to prepare a wide causeway across the marsh ... vain; the ground facing the
causeway was already thickly incumbered with dead, and the hail of the Egyptian arrows was so fast and
deadly that even the bravest s...
... of that ocean of which what is now the Sahara was prob-
ably the deepest part, Aeria was one of the many islands that had risen
above its surface; and that, as the land rose and the waters subsided, ... upon
as the man who, if any man could, would some day win the heart of
their idolised Angel.
Of the other love that was the passion of his other life, no one save...
... of it came a cock which crowed, and then a small bird came out of an upper window and
sang, and then a woman looked out to ascertain what the noise was about. Numerous toys of a similar
character ... instant the clatter of horses' hoofs was heard, and looking round they saw that half -a- dozen of the
Baron's retainers were spurring after them. This, of cour...
... a sort of
granary and depot for the provisions of the family, was ascended by means of a ladder, and through a square
aperture just large enough to admit with ease the body of a man.
There was, ... keeping, on the score of scantiness and age, with the coat, covered the attenuated
lower limbs of the wearer, on whose head, moreover, was stuck a conical cap th...
... grand families came in. One of these was to the residence of Madam Armengo
and another was the residence of Napoleon then known as the Prince President. At Madam Armengo's
Camilla attracted ... Lamartine. Here they had front
rooms in the attic and in the sixth story. There was a broad balcony at the foot of the steep mansard roof and
here Camilla's mother arr...
... inhabitants were
hanged, burned, or beheaded every day. The news of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, of the treachery of the
King of France towards the inhabitants of the Netherlands, and of the ... known that they were far out of range,
Captain Martin felt sure that the mate's idea was a correct one, and that the cannon had been discharged rather
as...
... glimpse of the
‘beautiful Antonia’ (or can it be the Other?) moving in the
dimness of the great cathedral, saying a short prayer at the
tomb of the rst and last Cardinal-Archbishop of Sulaco, ... Republic of Costaguana, the last spur of the coast
range forms an insignicant cape whose name is Punta
Mala. From the middle of the gulf the point of t...
... to
(for lack of a generally accepted label) as the mainstream tradition of
international law.
The new prominence of nation-states on the European scene was
abundantly apparent in the area of war. ... from the standpoint of the new
statecraft, the period might be known more aptly as the Age of
Calculation than as the Age of Reason. This calculation was in the...
... and no one heard them as they went about with
muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion
that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.
In England, there ...
Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures the creatures of this
chronicle among the rest along the roads that lay before them.
II
The Mail
It was the Dover road...